Example sentences of "it may very [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If not , it is unlikely to change its aims , but it may very well change its non-armed methods . |
| 2 | It may very well be , and I mean this seriously , that the adman invented the teenager . |
| 3 | That is , as a piece of adaptive behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or partly learned , it may very well now follow as a causal consequence of the sighting ; but that precisely this sort of dance should have come to serve this purpose is , in a phylogenetic perspective , quite accidental . |
| 4 | It may very well be that the socio-political theory of Ian Taylor , who suggests that soccer hooliganism results from fans being alienated from their football clubs , provides for a correct analysis . |
| 5 | Indeed , it may very well be an area where some programs can be of immediate and wide-ranging use to teachers . |
| 6 | Even in linguistics , the recent rise of pragmatics as opposed to syntax and semantics as the basis for understanding the nature of meaning ( e.g. Sperber and Wilson 1985 ) should suggest that , while the contextual world of objects may be the last and most overlooked component of the mechanisms of social interaction , it may very well prove , when finally excavated from its embedded relationship to the unconscious , to be the most significant factor of all . |
| 7 | During the intervening period between the date of such an order and the date fixed for delivery of possession it may very well be , and indeed obviously must be , that the statutory tenant has certain rights and certain obligations . |
| 8 | It might seem a little unreasonable at first sight but believe me this is a possible approach , and under the circumstances it may very well be the best approach . |
| 9 | In this context , it may very well be that several of the mammalian Oct proteins described , except for Oct-1 and -2 , may not be true octamer-binding proteins . |
| 10 | Ironically , it may very well be that the potency of socialist realism is to be located precisely in this global strategy of revelation and disclosure rather than in any attempt to arrive at narrow prescriptive theories . |
| 11 | It may very well be that I 'm not playing with a full deck . |
| 12 | ‘ With this one there was very little injury and as well as that she was quite a big girl and it may very well be that at the end of the day we could say that she did n't resist to the last and if she did n't then of course it 's not rape it 's a different crime , indecent assault . ’ |
| 13 | In a rape case , by contrast , a defendant who says he believed in consent when the girl had demonstrated her lack of it may very well not be believed . |
| 14 | ‘ It may very well be weeks before you are back in England . |
| 15 | Within Scotland , the largest proportions of overseas researchers on Scottish geology are in Strathclyde and Dundee , and it may very well be that the difficulties such researchers experience in publishing their results account in part for the low productivity of these departments compared to those in other universities . |
| 16 | Within Scotland , the largest proportions of overseas researchers on Scottish geology are in Strathclyde and Dundee , and it may very well be that the difficulties such researchers experience in publishing their results account in part for the low productivity of these departments compared to those in other universities . |
| 17 | they 're not practical people , th erm , and it may very well be that there are some people who are very good at the theory , but erm , are not very good at at the practice . |
| 18 | erm it may very well be that certain family situations , such as the example I gave you example earlier — somebody may have given up work to look after a dependent . |
| 19 | We have just seen that a non-resonant photon will normally leave an encounter with a molecule unchanged in energy , but it may very rarely lose energy to the molecule and emerge as a Raman-shifted photon of lower energy . |